Italian Americans in film : establishing and challenging Italian American identities / / Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto |
Autore | Fioretti Daniele |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
Disciplina | 791.4308951073 |
Collana | Italian and Italian American studies |
Soggetto topico |
Italian Americans in motion pictures
National characteristics in motion pictures |
ISBN | 3-031-06465-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Shows Cited -- Part I: Establishing Italian American Identities -- Chapter 2: 'I Don't Do Business with Dagoes': Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer's Vendetta -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Ask the 'Dust Jacket'. Robert Towne's Film Adaptation of John Fante's Ask the Dust -- John Fante: Writer and Screenwriter. -- Robert Towne: Screenwriter and Director. -- Arturo Bandini: "Lover of Man and Beast Alike". -- Camilla Lopez: A Mirror for Ethnic Rediscovery. -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 4: Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone: Little Caesar and Scarface -- An Historical Perspective, Pre-Code Groundbreakers -- Remakes, Homages, and Reflections in Contemporary Culture -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 5: Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann's Marty -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 6: The Italian American Prizefighter: Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull -- Ethnic New York City -- 'The Brawler' -- Return to New York City -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 7: Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality -- Martin Scorsese: The Trifecta, the Mise-en-Abyme, and the Construction-en-Abyme -- Charlie Cappa: Mirrors, Windows, and the Narcissus' Myth -- Mirrors -- Windows -- The Narcissus Myth. -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Part II: Challenging Italian American Identities (and Their Representations) -- Chapter 8: Abel Ferrara's The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype -- The Funeral in Perspective -- Historical Context -- A Tragedy of Moralism: Mafia and Its Imagined Communities -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films Cited.
Chapter 9: Good Food is Close to God: Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night -- Primo -- Pascal -- Secondo -- Cristiano -- Gabriella -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: The Eclipse of the Godfather's Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia -- Oranges and Olive Oil / Agromafia -- The Garden State / Suburban Mafia -- Westward Expansion / Money Mafia -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 11: GoodFellas. When the 'Kid from Little Italy' Meets the 'Oklahoma Kid' -- The 'Kid from Little Italy' and His Cinematic Universe. -- Windows, Symbolism, and Stylistic Devices -- Windows -- Symbolism and Stylistic Devices -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 12: Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 13: Documentary and Italian American Identity: Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti's Family Films -- Making Time Exposure (2012) -- The New World of Film Is the Known World: Filming Family Portrait Sittings in the 1970s -- Conclusion: A Personal Time Exposure -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910633930103321 |
Fioretti Daniele | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Italian Americans in Film and Other Media : The Immigrant Experience from Silent Films to the Internet Age / / edited by Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
Disciplina | 791.43652691 |
Collana | Italian and Italian American Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures, American
American Film and TV |
ISBN | 3-031-47211-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1/Introduction Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto -- PART I -THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE :Silent Films -- Chapter 2 Races to the Rescue in an Ethnic Urban Milieu: D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Italian Dramas Irene Lottini -- Chapter 3The Italian (1915) and the Representation of Italian Immigrants in Silent American Cinema Bernard Kuhn Revising Gender and Ethnic Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Italianness and Foundational Masculinity in Edward Dmytryk’s Rendition of Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete Gloria Pastorino -- Chapter 5 A Sting from the Past: Femininity and Ethnic Roots in Helen De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995) Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 6: The Celluloid Closet: Sex, Power, and Coming Out Repression of the Italian American Closet in Nunzio’s Second Cousin (1994), Kiss Me, Guido (1997), and Mambo Italiano (2003) Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- Chapter 7From True Love (1989) to Union Square (2011): Recovering the Exploded Family in Nancy Savoca’s Films Gloria Pastorino -- Chapter 8: A Realistic Tale of Improbable Friendship. Notes on Matthew Bonifacio’s Amexicano (2007) Claudia Peralta and Fulvio Orsitto -- PART II - ITALIAN AMERICANS IN OTHER MEDIA -- Chapter 9: Italian American Gangsters Taking on a New Line of Work in Luc Besson’s The Family (2013) Rosetta Caponetto Giuliani -- Chapter 10: The Transnational Puppet: From Italy and Back Federico Pacchioni -- Chapter 11: Comfortable and Uncomfortable Fictions: Italian Americans in the First Decades of Television Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 12: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Italian Americans on Television from the 1970s to the1990s Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 13: Italian Americans on Television in the New Millennium: From Small to Smaller Screen(s) Fulvio Orsitto -- Chapter 14: The Goddess and the Huntress: Diana and DC’sHelena Bertinelli Felice Italo Beneduce -- Chapter 15: CNN’s Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon Alan J. Gravano -- Chapter 16: Chef/Cook, Influencer, Mixologist, Travel Host: Stanley Tucci as Everyman Alan J. Gravano -- Chapter 17: An Unlimited Memeiosis of The Godfather: Diachronic and Synchronic Observations of a Pervasive and Ubiquitous Meme Anthony Dion Mitzel -- PART III - INTERVIEWS -- Chapter 18: Interview with Helen De Michiel Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 19: Interview with Tony Vitale Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 20: Interview with Michela Musolino Daniele Fioretti -- Chapter 21: Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri Ryan Calabretta-Sajder. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910842289203321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Totalitarian arts : the visual arts, fascism(s) and mass-society / / edited by Mark Epstein, Fulvio Orsitto and Andrea Righi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (473 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 700.103 |
Soggetto topico |
Fascism and art
Totalitarianism and art |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4438-7954-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480492303321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Totalitarian arts : the visual arts, fascism(s) and mass-society / / edited by Mark Epstein, Fulvio Orsitto and Andrea Righi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (473 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 700.103 |
Soggetto topico |
Fascism and art
Totalitarianism and art |
ISBN | 1-4438-7954-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792883403321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Totalitarian arts : the visual arts, fascism(s) and mass-society / / edited by Mark Epstein, Fulvio Orsitto and Andrea Righi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (473 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 700.103 |
Soggetto topico |
Fascism and art
Totalitarianism and art |
ISBN | 1-4438-7954-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815008603321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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